Word: seneca
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...canto style. But beside Monteverdi's hopped-up humans, his gods look like so many bank clerks. Poppea's action centers on the infatuation of the Roman Emperor Nero with his mistress, Poppea, an affair held in dubious check by Nero's Stoic mentor Seneca. Poppea, slinkily played in Dallas by Patrice Munsel in a white gown slit to the hip, finally turns Nero's golden-curled head, and he orders Seneca to commit suicide. Meanwhile, Nero's wife Octavia and Poppea's husband Ottone plot an assassination. Ottone, clad in his own mistress...
Several months ago, thousands of Seneca Indians were forced to leave their lands in upper New York State. It was necessary, or so the Seneca and the public were told, to build a dam, the Kinzua Dam in Pennsylvania, in such a way as to flood the Indians' land; it was also necessary, incidentally, to break the oldest continuously existing treaty between the United States and a foreign power, in this case the Iroquois Confederacy, one of the oldest nations on Earth. The treaty had been signed by George Washington...
...fact, none of this was necessary. The dam could easily have been built at another location, leaving the Seneca reservation intact, and accomplishing the same results in terms of power and flood control at comparable cost. But somebody's property had to be taken, and Indians are notoriously easier to exploit than other groups in our society...
...Seneca themselves, they responded to the affront with the utmost dignity. They held a moving ceremony at the site of the dam, a kind of funeral service for their land...
...Administration, through Assistant Secretary of the Interior John A. Carver, has announced its support of legislation designed to compensate the Seneca Nation for the loss of its land. The bill, which would set up a fund to "improve the economic, social and educational conditions" of the Seneca, is pathetic in its inadequacy and almost touching in its clumsy pomposity. The Seneca have been dealt a sickening injustice, which no amount of "improving" will undo. Still, one can hope that the Administration's decision to give the Seneca something resembling a fair shake in this single instance foreshadows a new, general...